"But the CIA documents- which sat almost entirely unnoticed in a trove of declassified material at the National Archives … show that senior U.S. officials were being regularly informed about the scale of the nerve gas attacks. They are tantamount to an official American admission of complicity in some of the most gruesome chemical weapons attacks ever launched."

The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago- America's military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen- Foreign Poli…